Man claims to be the viceroy of
God Almighty on this earth but unfortunately he does everything against the
Will of God. He is supposed to spread righteousness and justice but, on the
contrary, he spreads evil and tries to subjugate other human beings by
deception and lies. And he still claims that he’s doing the ‘right thing’.

يُخَادِعُونَ
ٱللَّهَ وَٱلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَمَا يَخْدَعُونَ إِلاَّ أَنْفُسَهُم وَمَا
يَشْعُرُونَ“Of
the people there are some who say: ‘We believe in

Allah and the Last Day’, but they do not
(really) believe.Fain
would they deceive Allah and those who believe;

but they only deceive themselves, and
realize (it) not!”

(al-Quran 2:8-9)

This is the height of shamelessness that one does something
evil to others and still says that he’s doing good. He fools people with lies
and deception and thinks he’s too smart to be caught. This is hypocrisy and
hypocrisy springs from dishonesty. And dishonesty leads to Hellfire. Allah
knows these people well; and what they are doing.

أَلاۤ
إِنَّهُمْ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْسِدُونَ وَلَـٰكِن لاَّ يَشْعُرُونَ“When
it is said to them: "Make not mischief on the

earth," they say: "Why, we only
want to make peace!

Of a surety, they are the ones who make
mischief,

but they realize (it) not.”

(al-Quran 2:11-12)

Those ‘smart’ people seem to be happy with the worldly profit
they make from this evil trade. But, in fact, they don’t realize that it’s a
bad bargain. They are following the Satanic path and they’ll join Satan, at the
end, in Hell.

أُوْلَـٰئِكَ
ٱلَّذِينَ ٱشْتَرُواْ ٱلضَّلاَلَةَ بِٱلْهُدَىٰ

فَمَا رَبِحَتْ تِّجَارَتُهُمْ وَمَا كَانُواْ
مُهْتَدِينَ“These
are they who have bartered Guidance

for error. But their traffic is
profitless, and they

have lost truedirection.”

(al-Quran 2:16)

Spreading evil in the Earth and
ruling/controlling the world by deception, lies and falsehood, is a big crime
in the eyes of God. It is Allah Who gives some people authority over others so
that they treat mankind with justice and compassion. But authority (or power)
makes many people corrupt and they cannot treat others justly. The history of
the world reminds us, again and again, that ‘evil begets evil’ and destruction
becomes the fate of the evil-doers.

أَفَلَمْ
يَسِيرُواْ فِى ٱلأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرُواْ كَيْفَ كَانَ

عَاقِبَةُ
ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ دَمَّرَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلِلْكَافِرِينَ
أَمْثَالُهَا“Do they not travel through the earth, and see

and break your ties of kith and kin? Such arethe men whom Allah has cursed for He has

made them deaf and blinded their sight.”

(al-Quran 47:22-23)

Fortunately,
there are still some people on the face of this earth who cannot compromise
with evil and dishonesty. When they see those in power and authority, abusing
their power/authority, they tell their ignorant fellow human beings that they
are being betrayed. The are called the “whistle-blowers”. They put their lives
at stake for the safety and well-being of others. They are the real ‘Mujahideen’.

(Bradley Manning)

The
Betrayal: Who Is Fooling Who?

The forces of tyranny don’t want
people to wake up and stand up for their rights or civil liberties. They always
try plan after plan to curb and curtail these rights and liberties. They want
to be ‘free’ as dictators while at the same time they don’t want to hear the
word ‘free’ or ‘freedom’ from public or the people whom they rule and control.
These forces of tyranny are tightening their grip to control and subjugate
people who work for them as slaves. The victims (slaves) used to knock at the
doors of justice to get their grievances addressed. But these doors, generally,
don’t open for them any more. They are being closed and locked, one by one. People
ask their representatives:

You promised to protect us from
tyranny and evil/corrupt governance. But you did not! Why? We trusted you but
you ……

You promised to stand up for our
civil liberties, our rights and freedoms. But you did not! Why? We trusted you
but you …..

You promised to uphold the
principles laid down in our constitution and fight every tyrant/power-monger
who violates the First Amendment. But you did not! Why? We trusted you but …..

You sold us out for a few dollars
to make your own life comfortable and bring misery to others? What kind of
human being are you? How do you sleep at night? What kind of ‘democracy’ do you
believe in?

(Julian Assange)

The forces of evil are busy in
hiding the Truth and in spreading the Falsehood. They control the media. The
journalists are rapidly converting into ‘propagandists’ or ‘publicists’. In
return, they are getting rich. Dollar is strong enough to buy conscience of
many ‘champions of justice and freedom’.

Those who talk about the
constitution, that gives them these liberties and rights, are singled out and
persecuted or removed from the way. The fascists want no road-blocks. There are
the governments within governments who control everything. To cover their own
crimes, the fascist forces accuse the whistle-blowers of ‘security’ crimes.
They commit the crime of ‘betrayal of public trust’ and pin it on the law-abiding
freedom lovers as ‘Betrayal of Security’ (B.S. = Bullshit) to persecute them.
Unfortunately, most people are still sleeping and let the TV regulate their
lives.

(Edward Snowden)

John Pilger of AlterNet has
written an article, “A New Fascism On The Rise”, which was carried by the RSN
(Reader Supported News) on their website. Here are some excerpts for your
information and review. Enjoy!

A
New Fascism on the Rise

The power of truth-tellers like Edward Snowden is that they dispel
a whole mythology carefully constructed by the corporate cinema, the corporate
academy and the corporate media.

In his book, Propaganda, published in 1928, Edward Bernays wrote:
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and
opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who
manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government
which is the true ruling power of our country."

The American nephew of Sigmund Freud,
Bernays invented the term "public relations" as a euphemism for state
propaganda. He warned that an enduring threat to the invisible government was
the truth-teller and an enlightened public.

In 1971, whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg
leaked US government files known as The Pentagon Papers, revealing that the
invasion of Vietnam
was based on systematic lying. Four years later, Frank Church conducted
sensational hearings in the US Senate: one of the last flickers of American
democracy. These laid bare the full extent of the invisible government: the
domestic spying and subversion and warmongering by intelligence and
"security" agencies and the backing they received from big business
and the media, both conservative and liberal.

Tyranny In America

Speaking about the National Security
Agency (NSA), SenatorChurch said: "I know that the capacity that
there is to make tyranny in America,
and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this
technology operate within the law ... so that we never cross over that abyss.
That is the abyss from which there is no return."

On 11 June, following the revelations in
the Guardian by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg wrote that the US had now
"that abyss".

Snowden's revelation that Washington has used
Google, Facebook, Apple and other giants of consumer technology to spy on
almost everyone, is further evidence of modern form of fascism - that is the
"abyss". Having nurtured old-fashioned fascists around the world -
from Latin America to Africa and Indonesia - the genie has risen at
home. Understanding this is as important as understanding the criminal abuse of
technology.

Fred Branfman, who exposed the
"secret" destruction of tiny Laos by the US Air Force in the
1960s and 70s, provides an answer to those who still wonder how a liberal
African-American president, a professor of constitutional law, can command such
lawlessness. "Under Mr. Obama," he wrote for AlterNet, "no
president has done more to create the infrastructure for a possible future
police state." Why? Because Obama, like George W Bush, understands that
his role is not to indulge those who voted for him but to expand "the most
powerful institution in the history of the world, one that has killed, wounded
or made homeless well over 20 million human beings, mostly civilians, since
1962."

Google And The Truth

In the new American cyber-power, only the
revolving doors have changed. The director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, was
adviser to Condoleeza Rice, the former secretary of state in the Bush
administration who lied that Saddam Hussein could attack the US with nuclear weapons. Cohen and
Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt - they met in the ruins of Iraq - have
co-authored a book, The New Digital Age, endorsed as visionary by the former
CIA director Michael Hayden and the war criminals Henry Kissinger and Tony
Blair. The authors make no mention of the Prism spying program, revealed by
Edward Snowden, that provides the NSA access to all of us who use Google.

Control and dominance are the two words
that make sense of this. These are exercised by political, economic and
military designs, of which mass surveillance is an essential part, but also by
insinuating propaganda in the public consciousness. This was Edward Bernays's
point. His two most successful PR campaigns were convincing Americans they
should go to war in 1917 and persuading women to smoke in public; cigarettes
were "torches of freedom" that would hasten women's liberation.

It is in popular culture that the
fraudulent "ideal" of America
as morally superior, a "leader of the free world", has been most
effective. Yet, even during Hollywood's
most jingoistic periods there were exceptional films, like those of the exile
Stanley Kubrick, and adventurous European films would have US distributors.
These days, there is no Kubrick, no Strange-love, and the US market is
almost closed to foreign films.

The War On Democracy

When I showed my own film, The War on
Democracy, to a major, liberally-minded US distributor, I was handed a
laundry list of changes required, to "ensure the movie is
acceptable". His memorable sop to me was: "OK, maybe we could drop in
Sean Penn as narrator. Would that satisfy you?" Lately, Katherine
Bigelow's torture-apologizing Zero Dark Thirtyand Alex Gibney's We Steal
Secrets, a cinematic hatchet job on Julian Assange, were made with generous
backing by Universal Studios, whose parent company until recently was General
Electric. GE manufactures weapons, components for fighter aircraft and advance
surveillance technology. The company also has lucrative interests in
"liberated" Iraq.

It Is Up To Us Now

The power of truth-tellers like Bradley
Manning, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden is that they dispel a whole
mythology carefully constructed by the corporate cinema, the corporate academy
and the corporate media. WikiLeaks is especially dangerous because it provides
truth-tellers with a means to get the truth out. This was achieved by
Collateral Damage, the cockpit video of an US Apache helicopter allegedly
leaked by Bradley Manning. The impact of this one video marked Manning and
Assange for state vengeance. Here were US
airmen murdering journalists and maiming children in a Baghdad street, clearly enjoying it, and
describing their atrocity as "nice". Yet, in one vital sense, they
did not get away with it; we are witnesses now, and the rest is up to us.

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M. Javed Naseem (Jay Max) is a well-known journalist and broadcaster from Lahore (Pakistan). He is the author of six books. He has worked as a reporter and then sub-editor for daily Nawa-i-Waqt, Lahore; as sub-editor with the Pakistan Times, Lahore; and as editor of the weekly Community News, New York, NY, among others.He was an international broadcaster for radio Deutsche Welle (The Voice of Germany), Cologne, Germany; news editor and newscaster for Third World Broadcasting TV in New York; was producer & director of ‘Mabuhay’, an English language TV show for the Filipino community in New York. He had been an announcer at Radio Pakistan, Lahore; and Punjabi newscaster for Pakistan Television, Lahore. Before entering the field of professional journalism, he was a Lecturer/Instructor at the Govt. Commercial Training Institute, Lahore. He knows English, French, German, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Persian and some Arabic. He writes for Islamic websites. He is a Pakistani-American and now lives in retirement in Morocco, North Africa.Publications: The Way (Sunnah) of The Prophet (s.a.w.); God's Prescription - Al-Quran; A Wake-up Call; You Are Special; Stories of Prophets.